Amanda Shendruk
@ashendruk.com
https://www.not-ship.com/
Explaining the world through data and design • Formerly Washington Post, Quartz, the Guardian. 🇨🇦 🏴
Explaining the world through data and design • Formerly Washington Post, Quartz, the Guardian. 🇨🇦 🏴
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Amanda Shendruk
@ashendruk.com
· Nov 14
It's not just you. Uncertainty is through the roof.
The world is a lot right now.
www.not-ship.com
This is Not-Ship: a newsletter using data and visuals to navigate our turbulent world.
Everything is A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.
www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
Everything is A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.
www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
NEW POST: Last week I had a lovely chat with @georginasturge.bsky.social for an episode of her 'Talk Data To Me' podcast where we discussed all sorts of different matters to do with data viz: past, present and future.
visualisingdata.com/2026/01/appe...
visualisingdata.com/2026/01/appe...
Appearance on the Talk Data To Me Podcast - Data Viz Excellence, Everywhere
Last month I had the pleasure of being invited on to The Chris Gill Podcast, a great series where Chris chats with people working within professional sport from around the world. I was there to talk a...
visualisingdata.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:40 PM
NEW POST: Last week I had a lovely chat with @georginasturge.bsky.social for an episode of her 'Talk Data To Me' podcast where we discussed all sorts of different matters to do with data viz: past, present and future.
visualisingdata.com/2026/01/appe...
visualisingdata.com/2026/01/appe...
In many of the ways we measure 'the good life' — health, work-life balance, faith in government — the US is falling short. And not just a little bit. Over and over, data show it performing substantially worse than similar countries.
I call it the American Outlier.
www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...
I call it the American Outlier.
www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...
America isn't exceptional — it's the exception
America has self-importance in abundance. What it lacks is the data to back it up.
www.not-ship.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:43 AM
In many of the ways we measure 'the good life' — health, work-life balance, faith in government — the US is falling short. And not just a little bit. Over and over, data show it performing substantially worse than similar countries.
I call it the American Outlier.
www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...
I call it the American Outlier.
www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Want to get paid for looking at beautiful data visualizations from the world's leading newsrooms and visualization specialists? 🗺️ 📊 👀
We're hiring a working student to curate the Data Vis Dispatch. 🗞️
If you're a student in Germany, we'd love to hear from you! 👇
www.datawrapper.de/careers/work...
We're hiring a working student to curate the Data Vis Dispatch. 🗞️
If you're a student in Germany, we'd love to hear from you! 👇
www.datawrapper.de/careers/work...
We're hiring a working student to curate the Data Vis Dispatch
Help us create our most popular weekly blog format, featuring the best new data visualization.
www.datawrapper.de
January 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Want to get paid for looking at beautiful data visualizations from the world's leading newsrooms and visualization specialists? 🗺️ 📊 👀
We're hiring a working student to curate the Data Vis Dispatch. 🗞️
If you're a student in Germany, we'd love to hear from you! 👇
www.datawrapper.de/careers/work...
We're hiring a working student to curate the Data Vis Dispatch. 🗞️
If you're a student in Germany, we'd love to hear from you! 👇
www.datawrapper.de/careers/work...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Just starting out with Datawrapper, or curious about whether it's the right tool for your project or work? You can still join us for our intro webinar! 📚
It's happening today at 12pm EDT/6pm CET. You can register here 👇
streamyard.com/watch/XnsM2D...
It's happening today at 12pm EDT/6pm CET. You can register here 👇
streamyard.com/watch/XnsM2D...
January 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Just starting out with Datawrapper, or curious about whether it's the right tool for your project or work? You can still join us for our intro webinar! 📚
It's happening today at 12pm EDT/6pm CET. You can register here 👇
streamyard.com/watch/XnsM2D...
It's happening today at 12pm EDT/6pm CET. You can register here 👇
streamyard.com/watch/XnsM2D...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
brutal bag of charts by @ashendruk.com www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...
America isn't exceptional — it's the exception
America has self-importance in abundance. What it lacks is the data to back it up.
www.not-ship.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:16 AM
brutal bag of charts by @ashendruk.com www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...
Gorgeous! 😍😍😍😍
I just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶
So pretty!
www.featherbase.info/zh/home
So pretty!
www.featherbase.info/zh/home
January 7, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Gorgeous! 😍😍😍😍
Discovered some great data. You know that law of the sea: Women and children first? Yeah ... nope. The numbers show it's "every man for himself."
www.not-ship.com/data-detours...
www.not-ship.com/data-detours...
January 7, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Discovered some great data. You know that law of the sea: Women and children first? Yeah ... nope. The numbers show it's "every man for himself."
www.not-ship.com/data-detours...
www.not-ship.com/data-detours...
January 7, 2026 at 12:35 PM
New year, new uncertainties.
Me? I combat the overwhelming feelings with data. That's why I launched Not-Ship: a newsletter where we navigate ~It All~ together. Come chart the chaos with me.
www.not-ship.com
Me? I combat the overwhelming feelings with data. That's why I launched Not-Ship: a newsletter where we navigate ~It All~ together. Come chart the chaos with me.
www.not-ship.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:47 AM
New year, new uncertainties.
Me? I combat the overwhelming feelings with data. That's why I launched Not-Ship: a newsletter where we navigate ~It All~ together. Come chart the chaos with me.
www.not-ship.com
Me? I combat the overwhelming feelings with data. That's why I launched Not-Ship: a newsletter where we navigate ~It All~ together. Come chart the chaos with me.
www.not-ship.com
A positive start to the year!
Happy new year. Here's a treat to start 2026: Kim Stanley Robinson on imagining better climate futures. omny.fm/shows/zero/a...
Abundance or adequacy? The search for better climate futures - Zero
Kim Stanley Robinson’s life project has been imagining utopias. He’s a science-fiction writer best known in climate circles for writing Ministry For The Future, which depicts a future in which the wor...
omny.fm
January 2, 2026 at 12:05 PM
A positive start to the year!
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
How noisy is life in Singapore? Take a look at our latest project: str.sg/viz-noise
#stgraphics #dataviz #d3 #svelte #p5 #noise #singapore
#stgraphics #dataviz #d3 #svelte #p5 #noise #singapore
No quiet at home: The reality of living with Singapore’s traffic noise
We went inside residences near airports, busy roads and the MRT to experience the commotion.
str.sg
December 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
How noisy is life in Singapore? Take a look at our latest project: str.sg/viz-noise
#stgraphics #dataviz #d3 #svelte #p5 #noise #singapore
#stgraphics #dataviz #d3 #svelte #p5 #noise #singapore
What feeds our curiosity? Entertainment and recent deaths. Last year, more than 50% of days had a most-read Wikipedia page in one of those two categories.
Here's the ENTIRE list of most-read English language Wikipedia pages for 2025.
www.not-ship.com/wikipedi/
What do you find most surprising?
Here's the ENTIRE list of most-read English language Wikipedia pages for 2025.
www.not-ship.com/wikipedi/
What do you find most surprising?
January 2, 2026 at 9:56 AM
What feeds our curiosity? Entertainment and recent deaths. Last year, more than 50% of days had a most-read Wikipedia page in one of those two categories.
Here's the ENTIRE list of most-read English language Wikipedia pages for 2025.
www.not-ship.com/wikipedi/
What do you find most surprising?
Here's the ENTIRE list of most-read English language Wikipedia pages for 2025.
www.not-ship.com/wikipedi/
What do you find most surprising?
"While the world churns through crisis after crisis, our curiosities remain remarkably stable: People watch the same things, and talk about the same sports. People die, and we want to know their stories."
www.not-ship.com/wikipedi/
www.not-ship.com/wikipedi/
Wikipedia's most-read pages reveal our shared curiosities
A year-end review that doesn't include tariffs, global uncertainty, or Labubu.
www.not-ship.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:47 AM
"While the world churns through crisis after crisis, our curiosities remain remarkably stable: People watch the same things, and talk about the same sports. People die, and we want to know their stories."
www.not-ship.com/wikipedi/
www.not-ship.com/wikipedi/
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
A really nice—and surprising—chart from Amanda Shendruk's excellent newsletter, Not-Ship
www.not-ship.com/when-do-most...
www.not-ship.com/when-do-most...
December 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A really nice—and surprising—chart from Amanda Shendruk's excellent newsletter, Not-Ship
www.not-ship.com/when-do-most...
www.not-ship.com/when-do-most...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Folks, here's a link to my newsletter where I express my exasperation with LinkedIn.
Maybe we can get a critical mass of data viz people to agree to put in real effort to make BlueSky social work.
mailchi.mp/b0a153ba5843...
Maybe we can get a critical mass of data viz people to agree to put in real effort to make BlueSky social work.
mailchi.mp/b0a153ba5843...
I'm exasperated with LinkedIn. How about you?
mailchi.mp
December 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Folks, here's a link to my newsletter where I express my exasperation with LinkedIn.
Maybe we can get a critical mass of data viz people to agree to put in real effort to make BlueSky social work.
mailchi.mp/b0a153ba5843...
Maybe we can get a critical mass of data viz people to agree to put in real effort to make BlueSky social work.
mailchi.mp/b0a153ba5843...
There's one day a year when nearly 6 billion people — almost three quarters of the global population — have a public holiday.
Do you know what it is?
www.not-ship.com/when-do-most...
Do you know what it is?
www.not-ship.com/when-do-most...
When do most people have the day off?
The world is a lot right now.
www.not-ship.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
There's one day a year when nearly 6 billion people — almost three quarters of the global population — have a public holiday.
Do you know what it is?
www.not-ship.com/when-do-most...
Do you know what it is?
www.not-ship.com/when-do-most...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
It's crazy that the US has the nearly the same rate of road traffic deaths per 100,000 people as India, Brazil and China. It does worse than Indonesia and Mexico. Wow!
Neat stuff from @ashendruk.com's excellent new newsletter www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Neat stuff from @ashendruk.com's excellent new newsletter www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It's crazy that the US has the nearly the same rate of road traffic deaths per 100,000 people as India, Brazil and China. It does worse than Indonesia and Mexico. Wow!
Neat stuff from @ashendruk.com's excellent new newsletter www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Neat stuff from @ashendruk.com's excellent new newsletter www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Fascinating post from @ashendruk.com on how we don't "linger" as much. www.not-ship.com/we-dont-ling...
December 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Fascinating post from @ashendruk.com on how we don't "linger" as much. www.not-ship.com/we-dont-ling...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
When was the last time you lingered? You know, just hanging about. No purpose. No urgency. No real desire to leave.
www.not-ship.com/we-dont-ling...
www.not-ship.com/we-dont-ling...
People don't linger like they used to. It's a problem.
The world is a lot right now.
www.not-ship.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
When was the last time you lingered? You know, just hanging about. No purpose. No urgency. No real desire to leave.
www.not-ship.com/we-dont-ling...
www.not-ship.com/we-dont-ling...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Reposted by Amanda Shendruk
Help me find all the data and/or dataviz focused newsletters!
I've got a decent list going on LinkedIn... Add to it, or share in this thread. Let's find 'em all! #dataviz
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
I've got a decent list going on LinkedIn... Add to it, or share in this thread. Let's find 'em all! #dataviz
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Help me find all the data and/or dataviz focused newsletters!
I've got a decent list going on LinkedIn... Add to it, or share in this thread. Let's find 'em all! #dataviz
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
I've got a decent list going on LinkedIn... Add to it, or share in this thread. Let's find 'em all! #dataviz
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
As someone who believes runaway capitalism is one of the main ills of our time, Christmas gift giving requires some uncomfortable mental gymnastics. But I've found a way to feel a bit better about it.
Let me make the case for a B Corp Christmas.
www.not-ship.com/the-hypocrit...
Let me make the case for a B Corp Christmas.
www.not-ship.com/the-hypocrit...
December 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
As someone who believes runaway capitalism is one of the main ills of our time, Christmas gift giving requires some uncomfortable mental gymnastics. But I've found a way to feel a bit better about it.
Let me make the case for a B Corp Christmas.
www.not-ship.com/the-hypocrit...
Let me make the case for a B Corp Christmas.
www.not-ship.com/the-hypocrit...